Was on a flight with some severe turbulence a long while back. People were throwing up. Various items were being tossed about the cabin. The stewardess was sitting, strapped in back in the galley area talking to herself. I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

This is your hostess. You've probably noticed the smoke coming from the cockpit. I would like to take this moment and publicly confess my sins. Forgive me, Father, it has been one week since my last confession. Since my last confession, I have had unmarried sex with four men and three women. One of the men is sitting right here in first class and it happened not ten minutes ago. He's the one sitting next to his wife. He just gave me a grope and pushed me in the toilet. I figured "Why not? It's not like these frozen dinners were getting any fresher."

I also stole from the carry on luggage and I lied when I told the maintenance guys that I checked the oxygen masks. Actually, I checked them and found they weren't operational.

Oh? Just a TV set failing? Oh good.

Well, Lord, forgive me for opening this aircraft door, depressurizing the plane and killing us all.

AverageAmericanGuy:Was on a flight with some severe turbulence a long while back. People were throwing up. Various items were being tossed about the cabin. The stewardess was sitting, strapped in back in the galley area talking to herself. I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

Really confidence inspiring there, Northwest Airlines.

At least you didn't experience "extreme turbulence". Airlines never classify anything as "extreme turbulence" unless it leads to a crash. Otherwise they have to ground the plane for days for a full examination.

Ex_Parrot:I have only been told to "assume crash position" once... and that was one time too many.

Last flight into Pittsburgh during thunder snow."We are going to try and land on the runway." was the other gem from that flight.

1990 I think.

I was landing in Bangor, Maine in about 1989 on a small turbo prop commuter and the pilot came on and said "We are going to try and land in a really bad cross wind hang on this could get bad." That was the last time I flew Bar Harbor Airlines.

FTFA:"It was total panic. People sat and screamed out that they didn't want to die. The man in the seat behind me fainted and got help with the oxygen from another passenger. I asked an air hostess if we would crash on water or land. All I could think was that I didn't want to drown - I wanted to die right away."

When the plane eventually landed safely in Mallorca, flight staff still did not explain to the passengers what had happened, but rather, "sat on a bench and cried" according to Sonngård.

Let me see if I'm reading this right... So the flight attendants told everyone they were making an emergency landing, then the passengers all completely wigged out. Then, after they landed and everyone was disembarking, the flight attendants were crying as everyone was walking past. Everyone they'd just seen completely flipping out.

Sounds like the passengers were what really frightened the flight attendants. Young and weren't prepared to see the ugly side of people maybe?

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."

This is beyond unprofessional and they ought to be canned. As flight attendants, they are the ones everyone will look to for cues on how to act. If you can't handle your responsibilities while conveying emergency instructions with grace and composure you have no business being a flight attendant. This is on par with a reporter keeping composure when reading a gut-wrenching headline without giggling.

Wow I read the article and there are so many things wrong with those people on so many levels! The pilots don't have the humanity to tell the people in the plane that the problem isn't really dangerous....the passengers freak out big time....the stewardesses cry before and after (and during?) the emergency. What a planeload of basket cases!

AverageAmericanGuy:Was on a flight with some severe turbulence a long while back. People were throwing up. Various items were being tossed about the cabin. The stewardess was sitting, strapped in back in the galley area talking to herself. I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

A long time ago, my wife was in an AirFrance 747 that had a bomb threat while over the Atlantic. Had to dump fuel and land at Shannon; got there a few minutes after the bomb was due to go off (it turned out to be a hoax). She said the stewardesses were useless and were in tears the whole time.Said the maneuvers the jet did to get back in record time were pretty impressive, though.

i was on a delta flight from Atlanta to Norfolk and we were almost to Norfolk when the captain announced we would return to Atlanta because there was "a problem with the plane and the equipment to fix it was in Atlanta".

As we approached Atlanta, all the fire trucks were lined up along the runway.

After we touched down, the flight attendant yelled over the PA system with great enthusiasm "WE MADE IT!" We looked at her in stunned silence.

They never did tell us WTF was wrong, but the flight attendant was scared shiatless. They put us on another plane with a new crew and gave us a free beer.

i was on a delta flight from Atlanta to Norfolk and we were almost to Norfolk when the captain announced we would return to Atlanta because there was "a problem with the plane and the equipment to fix it was in Atlanta".

As we approached Atlanta, all the fire trucks were lined up along the runway.

After we touched down, the flight attendant yelled over the PA system with great enthusiasm "WE MADE IT!" We looked at her in stunned silence.

They never did tell us WTF was wrong, but the flight attendant was scared shiatless. They put us on another plane with a new crew and gave us a free beer.

wambu:i was on a delta flight from Atlanta to Norfolk and we were almost to Norfolk when the captain announced we would return to Atlanta because there was "a problem with the plane and the equipment to fix it was in Atlanta".

As we approached Atlanta, all the fire trucks were lined up along the runway.

After we touched down, the flight attendant yelled over the PA system with great enthusiasm "WE MADE IT!" We looked at her in stunned silence.

They never did tell us WTF was wrong, but the flight attendant was scared shiatless. They put us on another plane with a new crew and gave us a free beer.

I had a pilot come on after an extremely rough landing with the announcement, "Well folks, I guess you guys thought you were going to be on the news tonight, but we're here safely, so I hope you don't mind too much." It actually went over pretty well.